Juliet's House

Juliet’s House tickets: bought online, entered through the Teatro Nuovo

Since April 2026 every visit to Juliet’s House, the courtyard included, is bought online before you go, because there’s no ticket office at the door. The way in has moved as well: you enter through the Teatro Nuovo on piazzetta Navona, walk a one-way route through the courtyard and the house, and come out under the arch on Via Cappello. Tickets are in the visitor’s name, so bring an ID.

The ticket we sell, at €24.50, covers the house, the courtyard and the balcony, with an audio guide on your phone in English, Spanish, French, Italian or German. Bring your own headphones. Children under 5 go free, and you can cancel up to 24 hours before.

From the age of 5, children pay like adults, because the house doesn’t follow the rules of Verona’s civic museums: the free entry they give under-18s and their reduced rate for young people don’t apply here.

Juliet’s House with the VeronaCard: included, with a booked time

The VeronaCard includes Juliet’s House, and it’s the one place on the card where you still book. On verona.coopculture.it you pick the free VeronaCard ticket, a day and a time, and at the entrance you show the booking with the card. Choose a time inside the card’s 24 or 48 hours, which run from when you activate it in the app.

Everywhere else on the VeronaCard, from the Arena to Castelvecchio, you simply show the card when you arrive.

Juliet’s House opening hours: Monday afternoons too

On days with a show at the Teatro Nuovo, some time slots may not be available. Prams can’t go in, and dogs are allowed in the courtyard but not the house.

The courtyard’s cobbles are very uneven. Visitors with disabilities can see the house if they can move fairly independently and come with a companion, and then only the floor with the balcony. There’s an accessible toilet in the Teatro Nuovo.

Inside Juliet’s House: the courtyard, the statue and the rooms

In the courtyard stands Juliet in bronze, by the sculptor Nereo Costantini, and touching her right breast is said to bring luck in love. The statue you touch is a copy made in 2014 to protect the original, which is now inside the house, and visitors’ hands have already worn holes a few millimetres wide in the copy’s bronze.

Inside, the balcony room takes its look from The Last Kiss of Romeo and Juliet, an 1823 painting by the Romantic painter Francesco Hayez, now at Villa Carlotta in Tremezzo, on Lake Como. The walls carry paintings from the 14th and 15th centuries, taken from palaces of the Scaligeri, the family that ruled medieval Verona, and 19th-century canvases of the lovers.

Among the canvases are Cosroe Dusi’s Giulietta e Romeo of 1838, which has a display of its own at the moment, and Pietro Roi’s Giulietta, painted around 1882 and given to the house in 2020.

Juliet’s balcony and the house behind it: how a 1351 inn became Juliet’s

The house never belonged to the Capulets. It’s a medieval tower-house first recorded in 1351 as the Cappello inn, owned by the heirs of one Antonio Cappello, and his family, the Dal Cappello, had nothing to do with the Cappelletti, the Capulets of the story. Their hat is carved on the keystone of the courtyard arch.

Travellers on the Romantic trail started calling it Juliet’s house between the late 18th and early 19th century. The Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen described it in 1833-34, and the English novelist Charles Dickens found it run down, with carts and geese in the yard.

The city bought the house at auction in 1905. In 1939-40 Antonio Avena, the director of Verona’s civic museums, restored it in a medieval style: he reworked the courtyard front, redecorated the rooms and added the balcony. Its central slab is genuine 14th-century soft stone, with two supporting brackets, taken from the Scaliger palaces; the other pieces were made to match, on the model of the hanging tombs of the 1300s, such as the one at the Scaliger Tombs. The house opened as a museum on 1 June 1973.

Romeo and Juliet in Verona: from Luigi da Porto to Shakespeare

Shakespeare set Romeo and Juliet in Verona because the story was Italian before it was his. It begins with a novella by Luigi da Porto, a writer from Vicenza, published in 1531; the writer Matteo Bandello retold it in prose, and the poet Gherardo Boldieri in verse in 1553, and Shakespeare’s play was staged in England in 1596.

The two families have real Verona roots, up to a point. The Montecchi, Romeo’s Montagues, lived in the city in the 1200s, while the Cappelletti came from Cremona and were later taken for Veronese. Dante, the poet of the Divine Comedy, named both in its second part, the Purgatorio. The other stop on the Juliet trail is Juliet’s Tomb, a red marble sarcophagus in a former Franciscan convent.

Near Juliet’s House: Piazza delle Erbe and the Lamberti Tower

Juliet’s House is a few steps from Piazza delle Erbe, and the Lamberti Tower on the square is a short walk from the house. The tower is open on Mondays too, when the Arena is shut.